Child labor

Courts

Lawsuit filed against Hyundai and Kia over alleged “severe labor exploitation”

Hyundai called the allegations in the lawsuit filed by Jobs to Move America “baseless” in a Thursday statement.

November 14, 2025

Union organizing efforts met mixed results, companies fought lawsuits over hiring children, and Republicans attacked access to gender-affirming care.

December 31, 2024

The Department of Labor’s two cases accusing Alabama employers of “oppressive child labor” have both faced repeated motions to dismiss.

December 2, 2024

Mar-Jac Poultry has filed a counterclaim against the Department of Labor and is seeking almost $20 million in damages.

July 5, 2024

The Department of Labor is seeking all profits Hyundai and other companies made by hiring children in an Alabama factory.

May 31, 2024

Medicaid expansion might not be a bipartisan issue, but we still have a healthily bipartisan pro-child labor caucus in Montgomery.

May 24, 2024

The Department of Labor says children worked “on the kill floor deboning poultry and cutting carcasses” in the Jasper factory.

May 22, 2024

The bill would end the requirement for school officials to approve children under 16 working.

May 8, 2024

The operator was found to have employed 149 children under the age of 16 who worked longer than federal law permits.

April 19, 2024

On July 1, 2019, a 15-year-old was working on a roof in Cullman and fell about 50 feet to the ground.

February 8, 2024